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Smokers' unrealistic optimism about their risk. [PDF]
Tob Control, 2005 Objective:Past studies have produced ambiguous or inconsistent results when testing whether smokers actually underestimate their own risks of experiencing tobacco related illness. Whereas smokers claim that they are less at risk than the average smoker on self administered questionnaires, this unrealistic optimism has not been found in telephone or ...
Weinstein ND, Marcus SE, Moser RP.
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We are infected with the new, mutated virus UO-COVID-19
Archives of Medical Science, 2020 Introduction Optimism is boosted by leaders hoping for job creation, increased business spending, and a high consumption rate. In this research, we assessed the hazardous side effect for global health policies stemming from this optimism: unrealistic ...
Wojciech Kulesza +5 more
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Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2021 Physicians will ultimately face the necessary but unpleasant task of caring for a dying patient at some point in their careers. Communicating with patients or their families during such dire times is very important especially when the patient or family ...
Joshua K. Salabei +4 more
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Unrealistic optimism among university students
International journal of health sciences, 2022 University students belong to the youth stage, especially as young people suffer from pressures in their lives and their future, not to mention the developments and changes taking place in all areas of life as they keep pace with the technical revolution and social communication. Another, the youth stage, is a transitional stage between adolescence and
Ameera Jaber Hashim +1 more
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Unrealistic optimism and 'nosognosia':Illness recognition in the healthy brain [PDF]
, 2014 Introduction: At the centenary of research on anosognosia, the time seems ripe to supplement work in anosognosic patients with empirical studies on nosognosia in healthy participants.
Brugger, Peter +4 more
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Does Neuroticism Disrupt the Psychological Benefits of Nostalgia? A Meta‐analytic Test
European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Nostalgia, a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, confers self‐oriented, existential, and social benefits. We examined whether nostalgic engagement is less beneficial for individuals who are high in neuroticism (i.e. emotionally unstable and prone to negative affect).
Julius Frankenbach +4 more
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Unrealistic comparative optimism: An unsuccessful search for evidence of a genuinely motivational bias. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 One of the most accepted findings across psychology is that people are unrealistically optimistic in their judgments of comparative risk concerning future life events-they judge negative events as less likely to happen to themselves than to the average ...
Adam J L Harris +3 more
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The influence of cognitive factors on pathological gambling
Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Medico-Biologiche, 2017 The purpose of this study wasto examine the role of cognitive factors, such as superstition, locus of control, decision-making and unrealistic optimism,on gambling.Eighty-six subjects participated in this study.
Tindara Caprì +4 more
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The Psychology Underlying Biased Forecasts of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the United States
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This paper discusses the impact of a series of psychological phenomena on the U.S. response to COVID-19, focusing on forecasts of cases and deaths.
Hersh Shefrin
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How Belief in a Just World Benefits Mental Health: The Effects of Optimism and Gratitude [PDF]
, 2015 The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Past research suggests that individuals’ belief in a just world (BJW) is closely connected with their ...
Jiang, Feng +4 more
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